1. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus, Proposition 5.62, trans. D.F. Pears, B.F. McGuiness (New York: Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1961) 115. Wittgenstein was discussing the character of the self in this section. For a commentary on 5.62, see
2. Max Blac, A Companion to Wittgenstein’s “Tractatus” (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1964) 308–311.
3. Ralph Bultjens, The Decline of Democracy (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1978) 11.
4. Examples of this type of study are: E.S. Griffith, J. Plamantz and J.R. Pennock, “Cultural Prerequisites to a Successfully Functioning Democracy: A Symposium,” American Political Science Review 50 (1956): 101–137.
5. S.M. Lipset, “Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy,” American Political Science Review 53 (1959): 69–105.